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27 April 2024

Quick and Easy Flowering Zinnia Card

Welcome crafty stampers to today's Craft Room Therapy. Today we are going to create this quick and easy card featuring the Flowering Zinnia Designers Series papers! I love when the pretty papers do all the work for creating a beautiful card! so let's get started with our crafting session!

Supplies needed

Basic White 8 1/2 x 11 cardstock

Flowering Zinnias Designer Paper

PAINTED LAVENDER PHOTOPOLYMER STAMP SET

Painted Lavender Dies

Bakers Twine Essentials Pack

Cheerful Daisies Stamp Set

Classic Stampin’ Spots Assortment

Real Red 8 1/2 x 11 cardstock
Stylish Shape Dies
Mini Stampin' Dimensionals

Multi-purpose Liquid Glue

Start by trimming your Flowering Zinnias Designer Paper to 4 x 12. Score at 6 inches and fold to create your card base.

Die cut your sentiment banners from Basic White 8 1/2 x 11 cardstock and Real Red 8 1/2 x 11 cardstock using the Stylish Shape Dies. Stamp you sentiment from the Cheerful Daisies Stamp Set.

Add a bundle of Baker's Twine to your card with your Multi-purpose Liquid Glue. Adhere your banner sentiment with Mini Stampin' Dimensionals

Trim a piece of your Real Red 8 1/2 x 11 cardstock to 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches.

Stamp leaf bundle from the PAINTED LAVENDER PHOTOPOLYMER STAMP SET using both Granny Apple Green and Shaded Spruce from the Classic Stampin’ Spots Assortment onto your white cardstock.

Mat onto your Real Red Cardstock and adhere to the inside of your card.

I hope you enjoyed this little Craft Room "Therapy" session!

Chris

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26 April 2024

Sunny Thoughts and Zinnias

Welcome crafty stampers to today's Craft Room Therapy. Today we are going to create this adorable pocket card to send sunny thoughts and zinnias. The Flowering Zinnias Designer Paper is so bright and cheery! I just love the colors! So lets get started!

Gather your supplies

Flowering Zinnias Designer Paper

Loose Frosted Dots

Trucking Along Stamp Set

Flower Cart Stamp Set

Bakers Twine Essentials Pack

Mini Stampin' Dimensionals

Basic White 8 1/2 x 11 cardstock

Gorgeous Grape Classic Stampin' pad

Stylish Shape Dies

seed packet

Create your card

Cut your Basic White 8 1/2 x 11 cardstock to 8 x 5 1/2. Score at 4 inches and fold to create your card base.

Cut your green paper and the small floral paper from the Flower Cart Stamp Set to 3 3/4 x 5 1/4.

Cut your green stripe paper in half diagonally as shown below.

Adhere the bottom and sides of your striped paper to your floral paper leaving the diagonal edge with no adhesive so that it creates a pocket for your seed packet. Adhere pocket to your card base. (save your cut away triangle for the inside of your card.

Fussy cut large zinnias from your Designer paper. Adhere zinnias to front of your pocket.

Stamp your sentiment from your Trucking Along Stamp Set with your Gorgeous Grape Classic Stampin' pad on to a banner die cut with your Stylish Shape Dies . Adhere to the front of your card with Mini Stampin' Dimensionals. Add a bow with white bakers twine from your Bakers Twine Essentials Pack

Adhere you cut away triangle to the inside of your card. Stamp sentiment from your Flower Cart Stamp Set.

I hope you enjoyed this little Craft Room "Therapy" session!

Chris

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25 April 2024

Grateful Heart Stenciled Greeting Card

HELLO! Today I am excited to share this stenciled card I created using the super cute and fun Blank Page Muse Clara & Dream Big Art Rubber Stamps designed by Magda Polakow. As a bird momma myself I love stamps with birdies! and this one is adorable. And she looks so cute on this slimline card!

Supplies needed:

Blank Page Muse Clara & Dream Big Art Rubber Stamps designed by Magda Polakow

Blank Page Muse Hearts Stencil designed by Magda Polakow

inks, markers, distress inks, coordinating card stock, white cardstock for card base and stamping, ticker sentiments

Create your slimline card by cutting your white cardstock to 8.5 inches x 7 inches. Score your card at 3.5 inches (on the 7 inch side). These slimline card will fit into regular business sized envelopes.

Cut your coordinating cardstock slightly smaller than your card base front.

Use distress ink to ink your Blank Page Muse Hearts Stencil designed by Magda Polakow . Move your stencil to ink your entire cardstock.

Just look at how the red ink pops off the pink cardstock!

Adhere the stenciled background onto your card base.

Stamp your Blank Page Muse Clara & Dream Big Art Rubber Stamps designed by Magda Polakow onto white cardstock.

Color your image as desired.

Add your Blank Page Muse Clara & Dream Big Art Rubber Stamps designed by Magda Polakow to your card . Add sentiment stickers to finish off your card.

I hope you are inspired to get creative with your stamps and papers from Blank Page Muse and I Brake For Stamps. Don't forget to use my discount code BPMChris.

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Soft Pastels Watercolor Card

Welcome crafty stampers to today's Craft Room Therapy. Today we are going to create and with the Soft Pastels from Stampin' Up! . These are my first time ever playing with the Soft Pastels! They are so fun that I created 2 cards to share and I can't wait to play and create with them some more.

The first card using normal stamping techniques and the second card creates a resist outlined image as shown below.

Getting Started and creating your backgrounds

Start by creating your card bases by cutting two 4 x 11 inch pieces from Basic White Cardstock. Fold at 5 1/2 inches to create two 4 x 5 1/2 inch card bases.

Cut two pieces of watercolor paper to 3.5 x 5 inches.

Resist Card

Add your embossing pouch from the embossing Tool Kit .

Stamp your image from Cheerful Daisies Stamp Set onto your water color paper with Versamark Ink Pad and heat emboss with clear embossing powder.

Using your Soft Pastels

Using your soft pastels color/ scribble your pastels onto the water color paper.

Using your Water Painters , spread pastels across your backgrounds and let dry!

I used my heat tool t dry my papers.

Resist Card Continue

Option 1

Mat image on Highland Heather 8 1/2x 11 Cardstock and adhere to card base.

Option 2

Mat image on Highland Heather 8 1/2x 11 Cardstock and adhere to card base. Using coordinating Cheerful Daises Dies die-cut your image and adhere so that the resist outline shows.

Stamp you sentiment onto die-cut ticket from Cheerful Daises Dies